Front matter
Reading edition
“HE REPEATED ALL THE BLESSED WORDS.” (See p. 230.)
PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
By
AMELIA E. BARR
NEW YORK THE CENTURY CO. 1897
Copyright, 1896, 1897, by
The Century Co.
The De Vinne Press.
CONTENTS
BOOK FIRST–LIOT BORSON
PAGE
I.The Weaving of Doom3
II.Jealousy Cruel as the Grave23
III.A Sentence for Life44
IV.The Door Wide Open62
BOOK SECOND–DAVID BORSON
V.A New Life85
VI.Kindred–the Quick and the Dead107
VII.So Far and No Farther127
VIII.The Justification of Death144
IX.A Sacrifice Accepted169
X.In the Fourth Watch192
XI.The Lowest Hell210
XII.“At Last it is Peace”220
ILLUSTRATIONS
“He Repeated all the Blessed Words”Frontispiece
A Lerwick Man33
“The Waters of the Great Deep”55
“‘I Want to Find my Father’s People’”91
Nanna and Vala103
“But she Held her Peace”133
At the Kirk137
Peat-gatherers161
Groat193
On the Way to Nanna’s Cottage223
“Went in and out among his Mates”237
PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE
Book First
LIOT BORSON
BOOK FIRST
CONTENTS
PAGE
I.The Weaving of Doom3
II.Jealousy Cruel as the Grave23
III.A Sentence for Life44
IV.The Door Wide Open62